William AsherDirector
Gene BarryJonathan Clark
Valerie FrenchEve Wingate
George VoskovecProf. Klaus Bechner
Azemat JantiIvan Godofsky
Stefan SchnabelThe Soviet General
Friedrich von LedeburDr. Karl Neuhaus
Ralph ClantonMr Ingram
Arnold MossThe Alien
Monty AshSoviet Prison Physician
Theo MarcuseSoviet Col. Gregor
Paul BirchAdmiral
Paul FreesRadio Newscaster Ward Mason
The 27th Day
- science fiction
07 Jan 1957
6.2
2
1h 15min
Terror from Outer Space!
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...
